Paradise Lost (1940 film)

Paradise Lost (Paradis perdu) is a 1940 French war drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco and Micheline Presle. In pre-First World War Paris, an aspiring artist falls in love with a dressmaker. After she dies in childbirth he volunteers to take part in a dangerous mission during the war. Badly wounded, he nonetheless recovers, and returns home to bring up his only daughter.

Cast

 * Fernand Gravey as Le peintre Pierre Leblanc
 * Elvire Popesco as Sonia Vorochine
 * Micheline Presle as Janine Mercier / Jeannette Leblanc
 * André Alerme as le couturier Raoul Calou
 * Monique Rolland as Laurence Aubujan
 * Robert Le Vigan as Édouard Bordenave
 * Robert Pizani as Le couturier Bernard Lesage
 * Jane Marken as Madame Bonneron – la concierge
 * Marcel Delaître as Le capitaine
 * Les Bluebell Girls as Les girls à l'inauguration de la Marie-Galante
 * Gérard Landry as Gérard Aubujan